Traduction de «Le Droit du bien-être social au Canada » (Français → Anglais) :

Undeclared work has serious implications for the workers concerned, who find themselves having to accept precarious and sometimes hazardous working conditions, much lower wages, severe infringements of labour rights and significantly reduced protection under labour and social protection law, thus depriving them of adequate social benefits, pension rights and access to healthcare, as well as skills development and lifelong learning opportunities.

(9) Undeclared work has serious implications for the workers concerned, who find themselves having to accept precarious and sometimes hazardous working conditions, much lower wages, severe infringements of labour rights and significantly reduced protection under labour and social protection law, thus depriving them of adequate social benefits, pension rights and access to healthcare, as well as skills development and lifelong learning opportunities.

26. Stresses that sustainable democracy, functioning and de-bureaucratised institutions, the rule of law and quality education not only promote political stability, social welfare and cohesion but also stimulate economic growth by improving the business environment and attracting investment, allowing new SMEs to emerge and fostering trade, the green economy and tourism, all of which generate new jobs and new opportunities; underlines the need to create an environment conducive to investment, with stability, legal security and the fig ...[+++]ht against corruption at its core; calls, therefore, on the EU to encourage structural reforms in the economic, social and legal arenas as part of its support for democratic transitions noting emphatically the close interweaving of democratic and socio-economic development; welcomes the Commission's flagship initiatives on SMEs and on regional energy markets and energy efficiency; believes that these efforts should be reflected in the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);

9. Considers that the current trend of the Commission's approach is clearly anti-social, in obvious contradiction with the main social advances of the Lisbon Treaty, penalising wage-earners, encouraging precarious work, generating more inequalities between people and countries and ignoring poverty and social rights; asks therefore the Commission to operate a dramatic shift in policy and pull all its strengths into shaping a new social strategy to guarantee as a minimum well established social rights, national practices of collective wage bargaining and income distribution, but also to promote social rights and social progress for all Eu ...[+++]ropean citizens; requests a strong commitment especially on the horizontal social clause to be formalised in a legislative text as well as an horizontal anti-discrimination strategy and a review of the conditionalities imposed through ‘bail-outs’ from the perspective of social acquis and this horizontal social clause;

The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should contribute to the promotion of technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of technology, to the mutual advantage of producers and users of technological knowledge and in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare, and to a balance of rights and obligations.

This is the solidarity which the Charter guarantees through the right to free education, the right of workers to be informed and consulted, the right to collective bargaining and action, including the right to strike, even if it was not easy to get it included in the text, but also through the right to protection against unjustified dismissal, the right to social protection and the ban on children working.